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BMC Health Services Research BioMed Central Research article Open Access Association between community health center and rural health clinic presence and county-level hospitalization rates for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: an analysis across eight US states 1 2 2 Janice C Probst* , James N Laditka and Sarah B Laditka Address: 1South Carolina Rural Health Research Center, Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina 220 Stoneridge Drive, Suite 204, Columbia, SC 29210, USA and 2Department of Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard; Charlotte, NC 28223, USA Email: Janice C Probst* - jprobst@; James N Laditka - jladitka@; Sarah B Laditka - sladitka@ * Corresponding author Published: 31 July 2009 Received: 8 September 2008 Accepted: 31 July 2009 BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:134 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-134 This article is available from: /1472-6963/9/134 © 2009 Probst et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Federally qualified community health centers (CHCs) and rural health clinics (RHCs) are intended to provide access to care for vulnerable populati